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Sri Parthasarathi thunai,
Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha

? Mattrondrum vEinda Maname Madhilarangar
Kattrinum meitha kazhalinai keezh- uttra
Thirumaalai paadum seer Thondaradipodi Emperumaanai
Eppozhudum peesu?

? Srimat Krishna samahvaya Namo yaamuna soonave 
yetkadAkshai kalakshyAnAm sulabha: Sridara: sadaa?

Pranams,

Paasuram- 40

?Thirumaru mArvA! Ninnai sindhaiyul thigazhavaiththu
maruviya manaththarAgil mAnilaththu vuyirgalellAm
veruvara kondru suttitu eetiya vinaiyarElum
aruvinai payanaduyyAr arangamAnagarulAnE!?

Thirumaru mArvA! Ninnai sindhaiyul thigazhavaiththu: We already saw that the 
paasurams from 39 to 43 are nothing but the explanation to the 38th paasuram. 
We also saw that the 38th paasuram gives the meaning of the manthra ratnam 
dvayam. But one thing, which has not been given clearly in the 38th paasuram, 
is given now in this paasuram by alwar. In the 38th paasuram there is no 
mention of the piratti as clearly stated in the dvayam. But here alwar says, 
thirumaru mArvA! Establishing the existence of piratti in the chest of 
emperuman. In this paasuram alwar proceeds further to talk about the 
Srivaishavas who has strongly kept the dvayArtham in their minds and have got 
it into their anushtAnam. Piratti stays in emperuman?s chest, not even moving 
out a second (?agalagillEn eraiyum?) similarly emperuman stays in the hearts of 
the Srivaishnavas who are always doing dvayAnusandhAnam.

maruviya manaththarAgil: If there is such a srivaishnava who always has 
emperuman in his heart, then,

mAnilaththu vuyirgalellAm veruvara kondru suttitu eetiya vinaiyarElum: Even if 
that person has done the most horrible sin of killing number of animals and 
birds, and frying them alive still he doesn?t have to undergo the miseries due 
to those sins. For instance, some hunters, their ancestral jobmay be to hunt 
but still they may be a bhAgavatan by heart, in that case their job will not be 
considered as a sin.

There is one story in mahabharatha. One Brahmin learned all the Vedas and did a 
lot of tapas. To test his tapO palan he looked with a burning look at a bird 
and the bird was burnt to ashes. One day he came infront of a house asking for 
?bikshA?. The lady of the house was involved in her pathi sEva and hence took a 
while to come out with biksha. The Brahmin got angry and looked at the lady, 
the same way he did earlier. Nothing happened to her but she replied, did you 
think me to be like that bird? The Brahmin was taken aback. He burnt the bird 
in a forest. How did this lady come toknow of this? When asked she replied, I 
have no time to talk to you but there is one person called dharmavyAdhar, who 
can clear your doubt. So theBrahmin went to meet dharmavyAdhar. When asked who 
was dharmavyAdhar the people around showed him a small shop. It was actually a 
butcher?s shop.Once again the Brahmin didn?t know what was happening. The 
butcher finished his morning business and then met the Brahmin. He explained to 
the Brahmin that each one is destined to do his/her duty, which makes emperuman 
happy. The lady was involved with her stri dharmam and me with my ancestral job 
but still we consider it to be for the happiness of emperuman and hence even 
this duty of ours becomes a kainkaryam to him though I am doing a lowly job. 
The Brahmin then realized the truth that it is not what we do which is 
important but with what thought we do a job which is more important.

aruvinai payanaduyyAr arangamAnagarulAnE: Bhagavan in geetha says, ?srAyAn 
svadharmO viguna: paradharmo svanishtithAthI svadharmE nidhanam srEya: 
paradharmO bhayAvaha:?. So if one does his duty and even if it is a sin, he 
need not undergo the results. For instance, a police has to kill a criminal or 
a king may have to punish a criminal all these do not add to the sin of the 
police or the king. But even in the case of the criminal if he realizes his 
mistake and surrenders to emperuman uttering the dvayam whole-heartedly then in 
emperuman?s court he is forgiven says alwar.  

Say someone stamps our feet, we want to scold him very badly, due to the pain 
but then when we turn towards him he says a sorry can we scold him afterthat? 
We forgive him and say its ok. When we people, who are filled withego, pride 
and anger, can forgive a person?s mistake will not emperuman who is filled with 
krupai and kArunyam? But one may ask that according to the sastras all sinners 
have to undergo misery. The papams and punyams areredefined in the case of 
saranagathas. Those acts, which make emperuman angry, are papams and those, 
which make him happy, are punyams.

Say a boy breaks a very valuable item; his father beats him up for being 
socareless. The boy feels the pain and cries thereby he has got the punishment 
for his act. But say if the same father was in a very good mood that day, so he 
just scolded the boy and warning him not to do it again sent him away. The boy 
doesn?t feel the pain but is happy to have escaped from his father?s beating. 
Now, which determined the pain of the boy, the boy?s act or the father?s 
reaction? In both the cases the boy?s act didn?t vary but only the father?s 
reaction changed. Similarly whatever weundergo depends on emperuman?s reaction. 
Even if we do crores of blunders, but later realize the mistake and surrender 
to him, then he forgives all our mistakes and considers us equal to his other 
bhakthas.

This is due to your krupai and karunyam Oh! RanganAtha admires alwar.

AzhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam
Adiyen Ramanuja Dasyai
Sumithra Varadarajan


 



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